Improvement in heels for boots and shoes



J. K. TILLOTSON. Heels for Boots and Shoes.

No. 207,370. Patented Aug. 27,1878.

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JAMES K TILLOTSON, or ELMIRA, NEW YORK;

IMPROVEMENT IN HEELS FOR BOOTS A ND SHOES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 207,370, dated August27, 1878; application filed May 25, 1878.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES K. TILLOTSON, of Elmira, county of Gheniung, in the State of New York, am the inventor of an Improvement in Heels for Boots and Shoes, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specithe heel-piece.

.In fabricating a shoe containing my improvement I make the heel-piece co-extend on one side forward under the foot the customary distancethat is to say, to the point 0, as shown in the drawings. The other side of the heel-piece I construct so thatitextends farther forward under the foot-that is to say, to the point e, as shown in the drawings. The ;--f ront edge of the heel thus forms a diagonal line across the sole-from the point 0 to c, and the line of the front edge of the heel on one side projects forward under the arch of the instep, and approaches nearer to the sole under the ball of the foot of the wearer than the" said edge on the opposite side. By means of the described construction and arrangement of the heel-piece the foot of the wearer is braced up on the side on which the heel is extended, and the shoe is. made easier .to the wearer in walking, while the wearing down of the heel upon one side is prevented.

As a shoe-heel is more generally liable to. wear down upon the outside edge, the invention is hereby shown in the drawing to pro-- vent wear on said outside edge; but the .extended port-ion f the heel-piece maybe con structed upon ei her the outside or inside edge, as may be desired. a 1

What I claim as my invention, and-desire to secure by Letters Patent, is'- The heel-piece O of a boot or shoe, one side of which extends forward, as at c, beyond'rhe line of the edge of the other si 1 e, a s at ss, that the breast of the heel isdiagonal, as do scribed, and for the purpose specified; I

' JAMES K. TILLOTSON.

Witnesses: SEYMOUR DEXTER, JAMES N. WARD. 

